billy bragg

While working at Turtle's Records in the early '90s, one of my best friends was Kirk. We went to countless concerts and shows together, usually for free thanks to the good label reps who were so generous with putting guys like us on door lists.

• Amazon.com is "likely" to power the music ecommerce transactions for the upcoming MySpace Music site. (TechCrunch)

Napster, known mostly as a struggling subscription service, has launched an MP3 download store.

Legendary singer-songwriter Billy Bragg had an op-ed piece at the New York Times yesterday on the topic of Internet startups profiting from, but not remunerating, the musicians who provide the music that helps drive traffic and user acquisition.

Something I’d like to begin doing each Friday is to start the day with a random 10 songs generated by my iTunes Party Shuffle feature. I’d like to do this for two reasons. First, it forces me to rediscover old tunes that have been placed on a digital shelf for way too long. Second, it might introduce you to some stuff you’re not necessarily familiar with.

As a general rule, the list will look like this: “Song title” - Artist - Album title.